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There is a version of The Housemaid that probably works. You can see the outline of it. The bones are there. This story clearly wants to dig into some loaded material involving a woman’s place in modern life, the power imbalance inside marriage, the pressures of parenthood, and the lingering damage of past trauma. That is not small stuff. And to the film’s credit, it at least gestures toward all of it. The problem is that The Housemaid never really says anything with those

Redele Riding (Victoria Tait) has been expelled from school and is doing her best to hold things together. She's living with her one-armed mother, Scarlet who is slowly disappearing into her heroin addiction. When Scarlet finally overdoses, Red is left with no money, no plan, and no options. She gets sent to live with her estranged grandmother Penelope (Lynsey Beauchamp), a Scottish aristocrat with a large estate in the Highlands. It's about as far from Red's London flat as y

Honey Bunch is a relatively new outing featured on Shudder that I had kept passing over for several days due to reasons I will get into in the Ups and Downs. It just kind of sat there on the New Releases screen if I scrolled enough to the right on the AMC+ home page. And I'd look at it, and I'd hem and haw, and I'd end up saying "Not today" and move on. I'm honestly not sure what it was the finally drew me to the new horror feature other than that Shudder has an even newer

It's been a rough year so far with catching new release movies for me. After having seen a personal best 117 new release movies in 2025, as of early March, I was only up to nine here in 2026. I've seen loads of late-2025 flicks, sure! But precious few films that have come out this calendar year. It hasn't been for a lack of trying; there just hasn't been a lot of worthwhile stuff released in this part of the year, the part often considered the dregs of the cinematic calendar.

The Letterboxd video store is live and with it came a handful of festival darlings which, without distribution deals, were destined to fall between the cracks. The only English language film of the bunch, Alexander Ullom’s It Ends  serves as an excellent example of just what this selection of movies stand for. That being the type of movie you watch debut with a hushed audience in South by Southwest’s Paramount Theater or Telluride Colorado’s ice rink: thrilled to dissect with

Roofman was a movie that came out recently, and it was one that I had wanted very much to see in theaters. But I never got around to finding the time to do so; it came and left the cinema pretty quickly without leaving too much sign of its existence. Luckily, it was a short-lived break between its theatrical window and its streaming one, as Roofman debuted on Paramount Plus recently. Magic Mike himself, Channing Tatum, plays the lead here: the titular "Roofman", Jeffrey Ma

Every so often, I am reminded of how little I care for director Todd Phillips. I've written on this before , but it's something I come back to every now and again. If I were to look it up , I would see that Phillips' exact quote was "Go try to be funny nowadays with this woke culture... There were articles written about why comedies don’t work anymore—I’ll tell you why, because all the fucking funny guys are like, ‘Fuck this shit, because I don’t want to offend you.’” The pro

Mike ( Frank Dillane) is a street urchin in London, struggling to just get by. When we first meet him, he's chasing down a friend that's stolen his wallet. A scuffle ensues between the two men, one that is largely ignored by nearly everyone just casually walking by. Eventually, a decent man, Simon (Okezie Morro) steps in and breaks things up, even offering to take Mike for a bite to eat. As the two men begin to walk to a nearby bagel shop, Mike attacks Simon and steals his wa

Nicolas Cage movies are basically their own genre at this point. The chameleon-like actor continues taking weirder and weirder roles, as...